Hello, I'm using RH8 HTML / WebHelp. Is there any way to have the search field that is part of the skin appear on an actual .htm page (default page) ? I just wanted to make the search field more prominent, instead of just having users have to click the Search button and then have search open in the leftside frame.

Would be nice if could have a search field right on my main .htm page, and even results would appear on this same page instead of withing the left frame. If not possible, guess will submit on my 'wish list'

It would seem you are wanting to change the whole behavior of the help? Just dispense with the navigation pane and the main toolbar and always have the user begin from the main page?

I'm sure you might be able to code something like this. It would likely require a lot of post processing if you did. I can't tell you how it would happen as I've never needed to do it. Other than that, why not simply utilize the Search field option to have it always present in the main toolbar?

No, I don't want to dispense of the whole navigation pane - just looking to have a search field on my default topic. I will add the search field to my main toolbar. Thanks forgot about that. However would still be nice to be able to put the search field right on my main .htm page. Will look at ZoomSearch, but we're looking at purchasing RH Server to take advantage of some of the usage reports it provides (including what terms users are searching for and search terms that resulted in no results found.) If ZoomSearch can do this and provide similar reporting to RH Server, perhaps I need to look into further.

So, is it still not possible to place the Search field on a topic page? My company is doing something different, where we are only displaying selected topics from the WebHelp (based on links from an external HTML page), so the navigation is not needed in my case. I was hoping that now, there might possibly be a solution where I can add a Search field to the Master page, so all topics will display it and Full Text Search will work.

Looks like you emailed your reply and it contained an image. As a result the path to the image got posted! I have removed that and I have removed your email address. Never post your email address on any forum unless you enjoy deleting spam.

You don't post the link on each page, You put an icon in the toolbar and that opens the search page.

I do understand that I need to link to the search page. So, what's the difference between me placing this button in the toolbar (that noone sees for my project) vs. on a Master page that would get incorporated onto each of my topic pages? Does it matter where the button is?

I want to thank you for your wonderful RH and ZoomSearch instructions!! I figured I would not give up on using this Search method...it's a tiny RH project with topics only; no folders. So maybe I won't have the different folder level problems. (?)

Anyhow, I followed the instructions to the letter (kinda), and I'm missing the part where I edit the search.html page w/ the search page content. Right now, it's still a blank topic page w/ no search box or content. How does the content in the Zoom Indexer's "Results Layout" tab get on the search.html page? Sorry to be such a pest!!

I've followed your instructions to the "T" (The reason I said "kinda" is that I did not create the search button for the toolbar, I created the search button to exist on the topic pages; this is the ONLY deviation I made and since I have a small project with all topics on the same level, I think I'm still OK here.). For some reason, the "search.html" file is not being regenerated when I click "Start Indexing." So, once the indexing is complete, I only have an empty shell of a search page...the same page that I created in "Step 1" of your ZoomSearch instructions.

So, I am stumped. I've deleted the entire project and started anew several times; I've changed the config file, saved and re-indexed it several times...I am just not sure why only the .js files in the "search_files" directory are being updated and NOT the search.html file. I wanted to try this a few times before bothering you again.

BTW, I am not receiving any errors upon indexing. All seems to index fine. It's just that I do not have a working search page to play with at the end. Using RH9, not sure if this matters.